Site Reliability Engineer II

Navan • Palo Alto, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Navan is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join its team in the Palo Alto, California office. The role designs and develops tooling, automation, and infrastructure services that support Navan services used by thousands of travelers daily. The engineer works with development, release, productivity, security, backend, and frontend teams to identify customer needs and deliver scalable, efficient, reliable solutions.

The position spans a wide range of systems and technologies, with the goal of building autonomous, monitored, fault-tolerant infrastructure optimized for simplicity and uptime. The engineer will design infrastructure to support company growth and help maintain a high level of service.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of progressive experience as an SRE or in an equivalent role.
• Passion for problem-solving and learning new tools and technologies, and willingness to say “I don't know.”
• Excellent communication skills when working with stakeholders and domain experts across the company to design solutions to user problems.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to and take ownership of technical infrastructure projects.
• Strong ownership, demonstrated by shipping production-quality code and infrastructure equipped with testing, monitoring, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate systems for a fast-moving, high-growth product, taking ownership of service success.
• Design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and safeguards for safe delivery.
• Identify reliability anti-patterns and address them systemically using data to evaluate system health and improve visibility and reliability across services.
• Automate toil in processes or build tools that empower users.
• Use AI tools and platforms in daily work to support autonomous operations, reduce toil, and improve system observability.
• Contribute to defining and adopting reliability standards, including SLO/SLI frameworks, observability standards, and blameless post-mortem practices.
• Assist with adopting AI-assisted developer tools and platforms to improve engineering productivity, enforce code quality standards, and enable real-time architectural validation.
• Collaborate with engineering and other teams to ensure product solutions are scalable, efficient, and reliable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed